Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-05
DEATH IN THE WATER.
Is the Element We Drink DeeimatiDg
the People?
How a Universal Menace to Health may
be Disarmed.

A few years ago the people in a certain
section in one Of the lesding cities of the
state were Frustrated with a malignant
! disease, and upon Investigation it was
found that only those who used water
from famous old well were the victims
Prof. S. A. baltimore, analyst Of the
New York State Board OF Health, upon
+, analyZing water from this well, found it
more deadly than the city sewage!
The filling of the Old well stopped the
ravages of the disease.
| Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation for
large building, a stratum CT dark
Colo-ed earth running from near the sur
face to hard pan. There it took another
course toward a well near at hand. The
water from this well mad for years been
| tainted with the DRAWINGS from receiv-
Ing vault, the percolaJions OF which had
| discolored the earth!
! Terrible!
| A similar condition of things exists in
every village and city where well water
is used, and though the fltering which
the fluids receive in passing through the
earth may give them clear appearance,
! yet THE poison and disea>e remains,
though the water may look never so
clear.
| 1t is still worse with the farmer, for
| the drainage from the barn yard and the
Stops from the kitchen eventually find
their way into the family we'll!
The same condition of things exist in
our large cities, whose water supplies
are rivers fed by little streams that carry
off the filth and drainage from houses.
This "water" is eventually drunk by rich
and poor alike with great evil.
Some cautious people resort to the
filter for purifying this water, but even
the filter does not remove this poison,
for water OF the most deadly character
may pass through this filter and become
clear, yet the poison disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they
must be renewed at regular periods, for
even though they do not take out ell the
lmpurity, they soon become foul.
Now IN like manner the human kidneys
act as filter for the blood, and If they
are filled up with impurities and become
toul, like the filter, all the blood in the
system cOursing through them becomes
bad, for it is now conceded fact that
the kidneys are the chie&4means whereby
the blood is purified. These organs are
filled with thousands of haarslike tubes
which drain the impurities from the
blood, as the sewer pipes drain impair
| ties from our houses.
If a sewer pipe breaks under the house,
the sewage escapes into the earth aud
fills the house WITH, poisonous gas; SO if
any Of the thousand ss4sd one little hair
| like sewer tubes of the Kidneys brt ak
de&u, the entire body is affected by this
awiulpOison. =
| II issa scientific factthat the kidneys
have fewnerves Of sensation; and, con-
| Seauently, disease may exist IN these
organs for q long time and not be sus-
| pected by the individual. Il Ii is iInpOs-
sible to ffter, or take the death out Of the
blood when theslsssrderengement exists
in these organs, asdzl the blood is not
! filtered then the uricssaGid, or kidney
poison, removable only by Warmers safe
cure, accumuiates in the system and at
tacks any organ, producing nine out of
ten ailments, Just as sewer gas and bad
drainage predpSe,so many fatal disorders.
Kidney discs sesnasy be known to exist
if there is any markedseparture from Or
cause, and it should be understood by all
that the greatest peril exists, and is inten-
| sified, if there is the least neglect to treat
it PROMPTLY with'Rith that great specific,
Warmers safe cute, remedy that has
receivedsthe highestrecognition by scien-
tifc men who have thoroughly investigat-
ed the chsFacter of kidney arrangements
They msy not tell US tSat the cause Of
so many diseases in this organ is the in
pure wateror any other one thing, but
this poisonous wafer with lis impurities
coursing constantly through these delicate
organs undoubtedly does produce much
of the decay and disease which eventually
terminate in the fatal Bright'S disease,
for this disease, alike among the drinking
men, prOhibitionistS, the tobacco slave,
the la5orer, the merchant and the tramp,
works terrible devastation every year.
1t is well known that the liver which is
so easily thrown "out OF gear" as they
say, very readily disturbs the action of
the kidneys. That organ when deranged,
Immediately announces the fact by sallow
skin, COnstipated bowels, Coated tongue
and headaches, but the kidney when dis
eased, struggles on for a long time, and
the fact of its disease can only be diScOv-
cred by the aid Of the microscope or BY
the physician. who is skiltul enough to
trace the most indirect effects in the sys-
ten to the arrangement Of these organs,
as the prime Csnse.
The public is learning much on this
subject and when it comes TO understand
that the kidneys are the real health regu-
lators, as they are'the real blood purifiers
Of the system, they will escape an infinite
amount of unnecessary suffering, and add
length of days and happiness to their lot.